American Visionary Museum

American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore
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Frankly, I did not go into the actual museum even though
I stepped on the front door of the museum
because the admission fee was too high for me. T-T...
A night before I went to Baltimore, I searched Internet where to go in Baltimore
and I found out this museum, sounding interesting for me.

This museum deals with visionary art which means according to its website:

"Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself."

That sounds quite interesting but I decided to try to comfort myself by browsing the sculpture plaza and giant whirligig outside of the museum,
which means you can enjoy inspecting the art for free! (Yeb, I like free stuff, haha..)
As I walked around there, I could have an idea what the visionary artists
want to do. It is not about the things that you can see as an art,
it could be everything, could be art, could be an object,
could be a commercial purposed product.

How cool is that! The art creator can make whatever he or she likes
as long as we can see and sense it.
There is no general artistic standard, but the freedom of expression. I liked this notion because that makes possible for everybody to be artists.
I want to try this museum next time. ^^